Dear Mom is a collection of photographs of mothers aiming to capture them at poignant moments with their children or grandchildren. Presumably the idea is for the book to be a gift for mothers to feel mushy about themselves: that's especially conveyed by the aphorisms about mothers in large writing, such as "Mothers are fairy tales of happily ever after," and "My mother is as beautiful as a princess, as fierce as a lioness. My mother is magic." The images by many different photographers are mostly documentary, and the rest are obviously posed. They are nicely chosen, in both color and black and white, showing people of different races, nationalities, and ages. There's a pleasing freshness and honesty to the selection, and some of them are bound to touch the reader.

There is a companion volume Dear Dad which is an almost exact parallel of Dear Mom, but the selection of pictures is not done quite as well: it is a little more clichéd and saccharine.

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